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Grand Central, now Mobile

It’s not officially announced yet but one-number provider Grand Central now has support for mobile devices, allowing Grand Central users to see their in-box, set preferences, etc., as long as your mobile device supports an Internet browser. Read More »

What’s on GigaNET: Late Night Edition

NewTeeVee: Reality TV king Mark Burnett and MySpace launch a new reality show NewTeeVee: Is the closed set top box doomed? WebWorkerDaily: Stop your eyes from multitasking! Found+READ: Psych yourself to win Found+READ: You sell me, I’ll sell you Read More »

 
 

As a gamer, Roger Ehrenberg is a fan of the Xbox 360; unfortunately for Peter Moore, however, his day job is President of a Wall Street analysis firm. And the investor’s perspective is decidedly at odds with the gamer’s. To wit, as he writes … Read More »

Twitter Leaves the Nest

A little South by Southwest love, a lot of mainstream press ink, and some overloaded servers have convinced Obvious to turn Twitter, its little hotshot web and SMS service, into its own company. Evan Williams’ Obvious Corp. said this week that it’s spinning off the … Read More »

Why eBay wants Stumbleupon

Updated: TechCrunch just reported that StumbleUpon is in talks to being acquired with AOL, Google and eBay as possible suitors. Though we have not been able to chat with folks from StumbleUpon, the social bookmarking discovery service, we have heard that eBay is the likely … Read More »

TeleCIS sells mobile WiMAX to Qualcomm

Qualcomm has bought the mobile WiMAX assets of TeleCIS Wireless for an undisclosed sum. Qualcomm tells Unstrung that it bought the company’s engineering resources for its “mobile broadband system knowledge and System On a Chip design experience.” Though, perhaps Qualcomm is also hedging … Read More »

WiMAX Devices, Coming Soon

Operation WiMAX is underway, and carriers are spending some serious moolah on building out the networks. South Korea launched a WiBro network last year and in the U.S. Sprint and Clearwire are working on mobile WiMAX services, too. It’s about time for some attention on … Read More »

Dash recruiting 2,000 testers

Dash Navigation, the startup with a broadband and GPS car device, is looking for 2,000 testers for its product. They want gadget-loving consumers that spend a lot of time in their cars. Sounds like everyone we know. See if you qualify. Read More »

Marketing in Second Life doesn’t work… here is why!

Last week, the Hamburg-based research firm Komjuniti published the first extensive survey of Resident attitudes toward real world marketing in Second Life. It’s been a long time in coming: a British branding agency established a forward operating base in SL back in early 2004 (and … Read More »

Comscore wants an IPO too

Having watched its clients get fat off the Internet boom 2.0, web metrics firm, Comscore is looking to go public and has filed an S-1 with the SEC. The Reston, Virginia-based company had revenues of just over $66 million in 2006, and net … Read More »

Freescale goes GPONing

Freescale, a chip company that was carved out of Motorola says it has launched a new GPON subsystem that was co-developed with Alcatel-Lucent. ALU recently became one of the big suppliers of GPON gear to Verizon’s FiOS network, that is going through major … Read More »

What’s on GigaNET

NewTeeVee: Mark Cuban vs EFF … almost NewTeeVee: Karina’s Capsule: young american bodies WebWorkerDaily: Why you might need an online persona. WebWorkerDaily:A different kind of a switch GigaGamez: MTV GameTrailers go mobile Read More »

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When Democrats took control of Congress last election, the lobbyists for all the big technology and telecom companies in Washington pulled out their wish lists, ripped them up, and re-arranged their legislative priorities. Gone was the push for sweeping telecommunications legislation, hemispheric-wide free-trade agreements and limitations on … Read More »

Vinod Khosla, one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and formerly of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has made a fortune out of betting on companies that tackle really big problems. Some of his bets – Juniper Networks, for instance – have paid off handsomely. … Read More »

We already knew that AT&T had a deal in place with Napster for the company’s mobile music service. Now the companies are adding some promotional details of the plan. AT&T’s broadband and wireless customers can access Napster for free for a year when they … Read More »

Now this is one Web 2.0 acquisition that makes sense! Hewlett-Packard has acquired Tabblo, Massachusetts-based company that makes it easier for consumers to upload and printing their photos from the web. Think of Tabblo as iPhoto rest of us – allowing folks to print their … Read More »

No question about it, Twitter has taken the web by storm. Kevin jumped on it first and then talked me into getting on it, although I don’t post there much. When Kevin heard that Dave Winer was working on a way to get the New … Read More »

Okay – this is just plain spooky: a few minutes after we published our Tello obit, a sharp reader emailed us to let us know that another VoIP service provider, GloPhone has gone the way of the rotary. Their website says that company closed … Read More »

Wondering where the world’s largest artichoke is? Not really (it’s 78.5 miles from me). What about the closest brewery? Well, that’s a little closer to the mark and only 3 miles away. You can find a dozen purely novel and occasionally useful mobile location based services … Read More »

What a difference a weekend makes: last week Clearwire was toast of the town, and today its stock went tumbling down -about 9.4% before making a slight recovery towards end of the day. It is going to be the story with this stock, at … Read More »

By now you might have noticed some changes here; our thought is that change is inevitable and good. We’re thrilled to announce we have a new partnership with Sena Cases, a top-notch custom case … Read More »

Yesterday afternoon I stopped by my local Starbucks to get a coffee and imbibe some WiFi, something I do frequently whenever I am near one of the coffee shops (which is just about everywhere) and I have some free time.  While I was there Mike Whalen … Read More »

Kevin Martin’s FCC is giving telco television a boost by passing new rules that are designed to speed up the local video franchising process. In other words, yet another sop to the telecoms, something Martin has been doing for pretty much his entire tenure. The rules … Read More »

3rd Dimension, a New York-based company has introduced a new (free) application that allows drivers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to see live traffic videos on their compatible data-enabled cell phones. The service also works on BlackBerry, Palm Treo and Windows Mobile smart … Read More »

One of the things I do from time to time is indicate what tools are in my gadget bag.  I revisit it occasionally because my kit changes all the time as I find new gear to enhance my mobile lifestyle and since it’s changed a bit … Read More »

It’s been almost a year since Kevin Tofel joined me here at jkOnTheRun and he’s been a tremendous contributor to the site.  He contributes a lot of good information that is often quoted and linked to by other bloggers which is great.  So what’s the … Read More »

Castfire, known for its podcast management system, is set to launch a video CMS in early March. Jackson over at NewTeeVee liked what he saw in an early demo from Castfire, so check out the post for more details and screenshots. Read More »

So you want to ditch your corporate cubicle and join the ranks of web workers? But you have a mortgage, maybe a dependent or two, and a taste for Venti Mochas from Starbucks? You can make money in the new economy, though it might not be … Read More »

Driving down the busy streets of New Delhi, it is not uncommon to see a billboard for Sony Ericsson advertising their latest Walkman phones, which also lure the potential buyers with a remix of a duet by Robbie Williams and the Indian diva Asha Bhosle. The track … Read More »

If like me you are drowning in email, Web Worker Daily has ten tips to make sense of the madness. Highly recommended for weekend reading. Read More »

I won’t comment on the version number, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the upgrade to James Kendrick. Based on this post at Celebrating Women, it appears to be a birthday for Mr. Kendrick! Before you draw the wrong conclusion: Celebrating Women is … Read More »

We are getting a lot of visitors from Slashdot or BoingBoing, both of which picked up Kevin’s post about the iPhotoMEASURE software.  If you are coming here from Slashdot and BoingBoing we hope you’ll take a moment to sit back and visit a … Read More »

This past week has been an interesting one for jkOnTheRun, at least while Vista issues weren’t dominating my time.  It’s been interesting because we found out that the founder of Planet Ark, a rock star, and now a UK soap opera star … Read More »

The Wikipedia profile of Phil Kerpen, a Beltway insider and policy director for Americans for Prosperity, should be enough of a reason for us to not take him too seriously. At least not when it comes to issues pertaining to technology, network neutrality and broadband. His … Read More »

It is never a good idea when the founder and chief executive officer of a start-up gets into a public fight with his ex-boss, claiming that he came up with the idea first. Yes, we are talking about Ferran Moreno, co-founder and CEO of Whisher, who has … Read More »

The Google Metaverse meme has popped up again. Michael Eisenberg, a general partner with Benchmark Capital in Jerusalem kicked off a fresh discussion about Google building its own metaverse, a.k.a a virtual world akin to Second Life. This isn’t the first time there … Read More »

The spin might say AT&T did a good job of cutting costs this past quarter, but there’s no hiding the tough road ahead as Ma Bell remakes itself. Buried inside Thursday’s earnings call were hints of how hard that immediate task is, as AT&T continues to … Read More »

Why does this sound so familiar? Nevertheless, once the service is installed the Fishes will swim with the bandwidth… lots of it. Read More »

WoW is just an economic tour de force. And for Blizzard it is literally printing money. Read More »

Just a quick update on the competition between old-school telecom and upstarts like VoIP provider Vonage: Last week, AT&T announced its Unity pricing scheme, which cuts some roaming and per-minute costs for people who subscribe to both its wireless and wireline offerings. According to the … Read More »

Didn’t take too long for AT&T to start showing why it’s good to be big: You can use your own network to clobber competitors in the pricing game. Friday morning’s salvo is an offer of free, unlimited in-network calls between Cingular (excuse me, AT&T Wireless!) cellular … Read More »

Boston-based startup Adesso Systems will launch a product called “Tubes” this week, bringing many applications that have recently migrated onto web browsers back into a piece of desktop software. Tubes works like much of the personal P2P and personal file-syncing software we’ve covered, … Read More »

British mobile chip designers CSR says it has purchased both NordNav Technologies AB and the assets of Cambridge Positioning Systems to enable the company to sell a combined GPS/bluetooth chip product. Read More »

Kevin Tofel and I have worked together on various projects for probably 3 years now and it may surprise some that our meeting at the CES this past week was only … Read More »

Kevin and I work awfully hard trying to bring mobile technology news that is useful and insightful.  We are really proud to share something that many readers may not realize is going on every day in the background.  We recently told you that buy.com is … Read More »

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